"Things have changed so much for me," Lopez told Billboard magazine. "I had to really do some soul-searching and just realize a lot of things about love, and now I feel like I come from a place where I’m stronger and, I think, better."

"I never put myself out there to show the world what I could do in the best way I could. And touring, you gain a lot when you go out there every night and sing when you feel good, or even when your voice is scratchy and you feel a little off," she said. "It made me want to get back into the studio without that cage I had put on myself. Once I let that beast loose, I was doing things I didn’t know I could do."

That sense of unpredictability is more appealing to Lopez now than ever.

"I don’t know what I’m going to be doing in the next six months. I really don’t. And that’s OK for me," she said. "Because what I like is, whatever happens is supposed to happen. And I’m good. I can roll with that."